The movie will be released in some theaters in November (Netflix)
opened Toronto International Film Festival The annual session is the forty-seventh, and it is the first edition with personal attendance since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemicScreening of the movie “The Swimmers” on Thursday.
The movie “The Two Swimmers”, produced by Netflix IncIt will be shown for the first time in some theaters on November 23, and is a dramatic depiction of the true story of two sisters who fled their home and went through a harrowing journey before rebuilding their lives and one of them making her way to the Olympics.
I ran away Sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini They are played by sisters Natalie Issa and Manal Issa from the war-torn Syrian capital, Damascus, searching for a new life in Europe. They crossed the borders into Lebanon and Turkey, then crossed the Mediterranean, helping their overcrowded boat ashore. They arrived in Greece, and then continued on to Germany.
Yusra Mardini was selected to compete with the first refugee Olympic team in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and competed once more in 2020. Meanwhile, her sister Sarah has been active in helping refugees.
24,598 people have gone missing in the Mediterranean since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Director Sally Al-Husseini told Archyde.com that film crews saw boats packed with real migrants when she was filming the boat scene in the film. “We saw the boats crossing when we were filming. It reminds us of how important this story is,” she added.
Manal Issa, who plays Sarah Mardini in the film, said the discourse on refugees and asylum seekers needs a change in narrative and news coverage, highlighting what she described as a different approach towards refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine than those from outside Europe.
“You know what happened with Ukraine this year: It’s not Afghanistan. It’s not Syria. That’s what people think,” Issa added.
Yosra Mardini said it was “exciting” to see her life translated into a movie on the big screen. Standing alongside her sister on the red carpet, in a sparkling silver dress in front of a chain of microphones, she added, she now realizes they are in a unique position to give them a strong voice on the matter.
“Obviously, this film is going to bring the conversation back on the table, it’s talking regarding refugees, it’s talking regarding the crisis,” she added.
(Archyde.com)